Although I don't play on Poker Stars I play on Full Tilt which have already implemented similar changes. I think the changes are for the better because you will be able to play in bigger pots against the fish and get more value from your hands.

As a BSS player, I'd personally rather avoid playing short stacks, so my following statement may sound hypocritical, but here goes. I think it's an infringement to a player's personal freedom of choice when the sites take away his option of playing a certain strategy in favor of another player with a different strategy.

I think in a poll like this the results would perhaps be biased because there appear to be more BSS players then SSS.
I personally agree with the poster who perceptibly illuminated the personal choice issue.

I like it because when I play any cashgames I like to play deep stacked, I feel I can learn more from that and when I see like 5-6 20BB stacks on a 9man FR table its pretty depressing to say the least. 40BB will not be great but way better

Originally posted by gadget51
I think in a poll like this the results would perhaps be biased because there appear to be more BSS players then SSS.
I personally agree with the poster who perceptibly illuminated the personal choice issue.

Why? Both styles of play now have their own separate tables. Everybody wins.

This post has been edited 2 time(s), it was last edited by Tim64: 15.04.2010 12:23.

I agree ^^. The shallow tables are full of players who still want to play marginal hands like suited connectors against a preflop raise, not realising that the small stacks don't give them anywhere near the right implied odds.

The changes (and I have to admit that I don't play on Stars) seem to me to do nothing more than create different 'homes' for different kinds of player. The short stacker can still play his identical preflop range with probably similar success against players who are too lose. Bad players will still invest 20bb with QJ on a Q68bd against a preflop raiser with AQ.

I don't agree that putting the shortstackers 'behind a pen' is any infringement of peoples' liberties. It's not as if there's some inbuilt constitutional right to make money from other people's ignorance.